The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-24
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS,


Corn-No. 8, 36L@3615c. Oats-No. 9, Soc.
Rye-No. ], SIC. Barley-No. 2, 561kc.
By the explosion of a kerosene lamp a
few days ago in Sears flour mill at Sho-
pierre, Rock County, the entire destruction
IF the mill followed Loss, $4,000 One
OF the mill hands narrowly escaped death.
The residence of George w. Thomas at
Eau Claire, was burglarized few nights
ago and jewelry and valuable ancient coins
were stolen.
Eli A Spencer, of Rice Lake, Barron
County, ex-Secretary of State, died of
apoplexy few days ago, aged seventy
one years.
The Southern Wisconsin Veteran Asso.
citation held their regular annual two
lays reunion at. Shullsburg, Lafayette
County, recently.
John Ahrens has been awarded 81, $50
damages from the St Paul road for the
burning of his cranberry marsh near
Grand Rapids, Wood County.
Josiah Betz, who was convicted at La
Crosse of having five wives and then
found insane, escaped from the State asy-
tum at Mendoza recently. He made his
way to Chicago, and from that place wrote
the superintendent of the asylum to for
ward his clothing to him, as he would
never return to Wisconsin.
The town Saukville, Ozaukee County.
has been fined $3.50 for it's failure to re-
build bridge that was washed away by
high water several years ago.
The Board of Supervisors of Dane Cnun-
ty has wiped out as worthless a claim of
s14, $50, with interest, which the county
held against Ezra N. Gleason, father of
Arthur Gleason, Chicago's election celeb
rity. Gleason was treasurer of the county
twenty years ago. and left defaulter Of
sl4, $50. 1t could never be collected, Glea-
sons sureties being worthless.
Frank Bauer, aged thirty-six years, cut
his throat at Milwaukee early the other
morning in the presence of his wife. He
was deranged.
The first session of the United States
Circuit Court for the Western district of
Wisconsin opened at Eau Clare the other
morning under the law enacted last
winter by Congress. District Judge
Bum, of Madison, president
w. G. Park, stylish cracker agent,
pleaded guilty at Milwaukee recently to
embeZzling 1926 from johnson Bros, and
was sent to the house of correction for two
years.
The schoolhouse at WestIord, Dodge
County, was burned to the ground re-
Gently.
The youngest teacher in the State is Miss
Barbara Hamas, OF Fredonia, Ozaukee
County, who has passed an examination for
third grade certificate in both Ozaukee
and Sheboygan coun ties, at the age of only
thirteen years.
Robert Lambert, aged twenty -four years,
son of the late j. II. Lambert who estab-
lished the Madison reaper works, was
found dead in his room at Madison the
other day. 1t is thought he poisoned him.
sell, although no reason for such an act
was known.
Milwaukee the other day lacked but
three of having one thousand licensed
saloons. and the issuance of thirteen more
dog checks would give her four thousand
licensed CANNES.
William Flanagan, of Waldo, Sheboy.
gan County, was at last report at Howard,
d. T., hunting For his wife, who five years
ago eloped with Theodore Stafford. The
lady is forty-ive years old and the mother
of several children.
There will be big crop of strawberries
in the vicinity of Delavan, but currents,
gooseberries and cherries are poor All
the blackberry and rasp berry bushes that
stood the severe winter will yield an
abundant crop. AS there has been no late
FROST the grape crop will be immense.
E. Schuman, a slab slasher at the Nc
Donald Company's mill at Wausau lost
an arm by falling against saw the other
day.
Cho o1n
lions in the State show that several thou
sand women voted for city, village and
township officers under the new law,
which enables them to do so at any cleo
tioa where officers are chosen who have
any connection with the schools Thou
sands more wanted to do so in other
places, but the election officers, not know
ing of the law, refused their votes. These
women say they will get their votes in
next time, even if they have to obtain adj
ditional legislation to accomplish it.
Wisconsin's share of the $400, 200 appro.
priated by Congress to provide arms and
equipments for the militia is $40, 1885,
It developed the other day that sys-
tematic work of swindling by two conf.
dence men had been carried on in Mil
waukee for some time, number OF mer-
ing from $50 to 500 by them. In nearly
every case the forged check game was re-
sorted to.
Chicago contractors have ordered one
thousand carloads of crushed stone from
the quarry at Montello, Marquette County.
The mystery surrounding the disappear
ancc of Willie Dickinson, from Common
wealth, Florence County, six years ago,
was being cleared up recently and in q
way to show the unfortunate boy was
murdered. Letters had been found at
Milwaukee purporting to have been writ
ten by the man who abducted the child
and afterward killed him.
George Woodson, the only colored
student of Beloit College, will deliver the
address at Beloit on Emancipation day.
Complete official returns from the new
Fifteenth Wisconsin Judicial Circuit show
that at the recent election J. K Parish,
of Medford, was elected Judge by plural
ity of 512
A movement has been started to incor.
porate Melford as village.
The forty third annual communication
of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, A. F.
and A. NJ, was held recently at Milwau-
kee the orders thirteen thousand mem
bers in the State being represented by
about three hundred delegates. Officers
were elected as follows: Grand Master,
Eugene S. Elliot, Milwaukee; Deputy
Grand Master, Myron Reed, War dca !;
Senior Grand Warden, j. S. Reynolds,
Hartford; Junior Grand Warden, NJ. L.
Miller, Oconomowoc: Treasurer, N. M.
Littlejohn Whitewater; Secretary, J. w.
Latin. Milwaukee; Trustees, N. c. Crit
fin, Fond du Lac; w. C. Swain, Milwau-
kee; David Fl. Wright, Madison.
A school census recently completed
shows Milwaukee to have &c. 1854 children
between the ages of four years and twen-
ty years; an increase of 4, 143 over year
ago.
AT the recent State convention in Eau
Claire of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Miss Amy
G. Kellogg, of Fort Atkinson, President;
Mrs. Hiram johnson, of Madison, First
Vice President; Mrs. Langall, of Spring
Brook, Second Vice President; Mrs. E. j.
Curtiss, of Madison, Corresponding Sec
rotary; Mrs. Strong, of Baraboo, Record
ing Secretary.
The thirty-ffth annual session of the
Wisconsin Teachers Association will be